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<h1><span>The Virtual Exhibition</span></h1>
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<h3 class="Mia-bold">November 1, 2020 &#8211; January 10th, 2021
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<p>ArtStories are in-depth, multimedia explorations of Mia’s highlights and hidden gems. Click through to explore a variety of artworks and stories.</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://artstories.artsmia.org/#/">Browse Stories</a></p>


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<p>Watch artist interviews, exhibition previews, and behind-the-scenes stories of Mia&#8217;s collection on our Vimeo channel.</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://vimeo.com/artsmia">Browse Video</a></p>


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<p>Exploring the strange and wonderful true stories behind museum objects. Produced by Mia and hosted by Tim Gihring, the series reveals the humanity behind the art—an object’s view of us.</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://new.artsmia.org/the-object-podcast/">Listen Now</a></p>


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<p>Audio stops are mini-podcasts that present many of Mia’s highlights and favorite artworks. Click through to get the entire list of objects that include audio stops.</p>
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BROWSE AUDIO STOPS</a></p>


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<p>These verbal descriptions are detailed explanations of artwork provided in an audio format for people who are blind or have low vision.</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://new.artsmia.org/verbal-descriptions/"><br />
Browse Descriptions</a></p>


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<p>Check out all of the exhibitions you can see in person and online at Mia. Online exhibitions offer a digital experience of the art, themes, and stories behind the exhibition.</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibitions/">BROWSE EXHIBITIONS</a></p>


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<p>Explore Black History Month, Women&#8217;s History Month, Pride Month, and more through the lens of art.</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://new.artsmia.org/making-connections/">Learn More</a></p>


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<p>See artworks from every angle with 3D photographic modeling of collection highlights.</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://sketchfab.com/artsmia">BROWSE 3D COLLECTION</a></p>


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<p>Most of the art is in the galleries. But sometimes the art is the galleries. Explore Mia’s destination spaces.</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://new.artsmia.org/art-artists/architecture/purcell-cutts-house/">BROWSE ARCHITECTURE</a></p>


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<p>Mia adds artworks to its collection every year. Accessions, we call them. Here are some of the highlights from recent years.</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://collections.artsmia.org/new">BROWSE NEW ARTWORKS<br />
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<p>Browse Mia’s collection of art by gallery, and choose which objects to see.</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://collections.artsmia.org/map">BROWSE GALLERIES<br />
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<p>The mission of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts includes making the outstanding works of art in its collections accessible to a global audience—both the objects and what we know about them. Wherever possible, this information will be shared free of charge and with few or no restrictions on its use.</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://collections.artsmia.org/info/open-access">BROWSE OPEN ACCESS</a></p>


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<p>With a variety of art-making ideas, fun activities, and learning resources, you can engage with Mia from wherever you are.</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://new.artsmia.org/art-from-home/"><br />
LEARN MORE</a></p>


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<p>Our collection is here for you in person and online. Pay a visit to your favorite gallery, download a high res image or dataset, or visit an upcoming Free Open Studio event at Mia and start creating. Share your masterpieces inspired by Mia’s collection here!</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://new.artsmia.org/art-artists/inspired-by-mia/">BROWSE SUBMISSIONS</a></p>


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Editor's Picks

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Explore the Art

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Third Thursday: Egypt?s Sunken Cities

My Mia Membership

<p>Women have long been the creative force behind Native art. Presented in close cooperation with top Native women artists and scholars, this first major exhibition of artwork by Native women honors the achievements of over 115 artists from the United States and Canada spanning over 1,000 years.</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://new.artsmia.org/hearts-of-our-people-native-women-artists/">Explore the art here.</a></p>


Hearts of Our People: Native Woman Artists

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<p>Julie Buffalohead creates visual narratives told by animal characters who have personhood, agency, and individuality. Like all great storytellers, Buffalohead connects the mythical with the ordinary, the imaginary, and the real, and offers a space into which viewers can bring their own experiences. As we enter her worlds, she coaxes us to discover additional layers of meaning—social, historical, political, personal—using metaphor, wisdom, and wit.</p>
<p><a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/storytelling-julie-buffalohead/">Explore the art here.</a></p>


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<p>The Native American Art collection at Mia is rich in examples of the highest quality art. Experience highlights from the permanent collection on view in  Galleries 259 -261.</p>
<p><a class="uppercase button button-link bg-none padding-none bottom-border-hover" href="https://collections.artsmia.org/search/*/filters/_exists_:%22list:nahm%22?preview=false">Explore the art here.</a></p>


Explore Mia's Native American Art Collection

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<p>Resiliency is important during times of crisis. This Third Thursday, we ask ourselves: how do we refill our cups and build strong reserves that will last? Our virtual care package, a collaboration with local Native artists, teachers, healers, and elders, will share creative nutrients to draw on for hope, resiliency, healing, and joy.</p>
<p><a href="https://new.artsmia.org/event/virtual-third-thursday-resiliency-care-package/">The virtual care package will go live here November 19.</a></p>


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<p>Find recorded lectures, talks, and other videos on Native artists.</p>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/showcase/7211401/">Listen here.</a></p>


Explore Native American talks, programs, and presentations

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<p>This resource is designed to support the integration of Native voices and art into K-12 curriculum. It includes artist interviews, essays about artworks in Mia’s collection and questions to support deep looking, critical thinking, and discussion, art lessons developed by and with Minnesota Native artists, and reading selections for students to help provide environmental context for the artworks. &#8220;Native Art, Native Voices&#8221; includes information about Native cultures both past and present and supports Minnesota state standards for visual arts and social studies/U.S. history.</p>
<div style="margin-top: 30px;"><a href="https://new.artsmia.org/programs/teachers-and-students/teaching-the-arts/native-art-native-voices/"><button class="border-light bg-white">Explore Virtual Lesson Plans</button></a><a href="https://images.artsmia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/14053706/Mia_NativeArtNativeVoices_LearningResource_K12_v4.pdf"><button class="border-light bg-white">Download Full PDF</button></a></p>
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Native Art, Native Voices: A Resource for K-12 Learners

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<p>During the summer of 2020, Mia partnered with All Nations Indian Church, Indigenous Peoples Task Force, and SAMHSA Native Connections to create a mural with the Keep the Fire Alive theater troupe. <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/programs/mia-in-the-community/community-arts/keep-the-fire-alive-youth-mural/">Watch the video and learn more here. </a></p>


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<p>Owámni means “falling water” in the Dakota language. For the past 7 years, our partners at the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board have co-hosted a free and family-friendly event that celebrates Indigenous Minnesota culture with music, art, and more. This year during the month of November, the Owamni Festival offers online opportunities for people to learn more about Dakhóta and other Indigenous cultures along the Mississippi River.</p>
<p><a href="https://new.artsmia.org/art-from-home/at-home-art-making/virtual-community-festival/owamni-falling-water-festival">Learn more and take a virtual gallery tour here.</a></p>


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Events

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Native American Heritage Month

<div style="display: none";><strong>General admission is free.</strong> Special exhibitions, classes, and some talks and special events do require <a href="http://tickets.artsmia.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tickets</a>: reservations are recommended.</div>
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<li>Monday: Closed</li>
<li>Tuesday: Closed</li>
<li>Wednesday: Closed</li>
<li>Thursday:  Closed </li>
<li>Friday:  Closed</li>
<li>Saturday:  Closed</li>
<li>Sunday:  Closed</li>
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<p>The museum is closed July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.</p>


Plan Your Visit

Virtual Talk: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Virtual Talk: Sam Olbekson on Cultural Expression in Architecture as a Means to Community Building

Virtual Public Tour: Current Conversations

<div style="margin-top: 20px;"><span class="Mia-bold" style="font-size: x-large;">This is a virtual event.</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 20px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Zoom webinar for this program has reached capacity, but we will also be livestreaming on Mia&#8217;s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/artsmia/">Facebook page</a>.</span></div>
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<p>Drawing on both indigenous and scientific knowledge, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, talks about the importance of cultivating a reciprocal relationship with the environment, and how understanding our connection to the land helps us connect more deeply with one another.</p>
<p>After this talk, enjoy a self-guided tour through Mia&#8217;s collection looking at the relationship between artists and nature, and consider how art can connect us to our shared humanity.</p>
<p>Photo credit: Dale Kakkak</p>
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<h2>Ticketing Information</h2>
<p><span class="Mia-bold">To attend this program:</span> This is a virtual event that will take place on Zoom, and will also be streamed on Mia&#8217;s Facebook page.  If you have never used Zoom before, you will be prompted to download the Zoom app or join from your browser. Zoom works best on the Google Chrome browser. If you are having any trouble, contact our visitor experience team at <a href="mailto:visit@artsmia.org">visit@artsmia.org</a>. To view the Facebook livestream, please <a href="https://www.facebook.com/artsmia/">click here</a> to visit Mia&#8217;s Facebook page.</p>
<p><span class="Mia-bold">Give back: </span>This program is free. Mia relies on your support to present its programs and exhibitions. <a href="https://tickets.artsmia.org/products/donate">Please consider making a contribution</a>.</p>
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<p>Please join the Friends of the Institute virtually on December 10 as they bring you Sam Olbekson and “Cultural Expression in Architecture as a Means to Community Building.”</p>
<p>Is architecture more than good design? Should architects address societal issues like equity and sustainability?</p>
<p>Sam Olbekson is Principal of Native American Design at Cuningham Group and Founder of Full Circle Indigenous Planning. He has spent more than 20 years working with Native American clients on culturally significant planning and design. Sam brings the perspective of a member of the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe who grew up in Native communities. He believes that design, health, equity, culture, community, economic opportunity are all inextricably linked. Good architecture takes these all into account. As an architect, he sees his role as place-maker with a vision of an equitable and just future.</p>
<p><a href="https://ticket.artsmia.org/products/friends-lecture-Sam-Olbekson">Click here to reserve your free ticket to this virtual event. </a></p>
<p>A Mark and Mary Goff Fiterman lecture.</p>
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<p>Discover the museum on a virtual tour with the help of our trained tour guides. Look for a new topic for exploring Mia’s permanent collection every month. Tours are free, but registration is required. This is a virtual event that will take place over Zoom.</p>
<p><a href="https://ticket.artsmia.org/catalog/tours">Click here</a> to register. Registration for next month&#8217;s tours opens on the last Friday of the current month.</p>
<h2>Upcoming Tour Topics</h2>
<p><span class="Mia-bold">November: Arts of Native America</span> Celebrate the rich culture and heritage of Native America as expressed in superb works of art. Experience the role of tradition and innovation in works from historic to contemporary times.</p>
<p><span class="Mia-bold">December: Winter Solstice Stories</span> View stunning works of art that anticipate the triumph of light over darkness and lead to the promise of a New Year. Hear stories of rebirth, redemption, and renewal.</p>
<h2>Learn More</h2>
<p>To learn more about tours at Mia, <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/programs/tours">click here</a>. Interested in arranging a private tour? <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/programs/tours/guided-tours/">Click here</a> for more information.</p>


Upcoming Virtual Events 

Southwest artist Juan Lucero joins Mia through Native American fellowship

Mia&#8217;s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide

Painting a picture with words

5 quotes from Jose Antonio Vargas at Mia that reveal the power of storytelling

Views of "Hearts Of Our People: Native Women Artists"

Stephanie Mann is the Engagement Specialist at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Foot in the Door

The Virtual Exhibition

November 1, 2020 – January 10th, 2021

Explore the Art

My Mia Membership

Native American Heritage Month

Plan Your Visit

Upcoming Virtual Events

Virtual Talk: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Virtual Talk: Sam Olbekson on Cultural Expression in Architecture as a Means to Community Building

Virtual Public Tour: Current Conversations

Blog

Southwest artist Juan Lucero joins Mia through Native American fellowship

Mia’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide

Painting a picture with words

5 quotes from Jose Antonio Vargas at Mia that reveal the power of storytelling

Foot in the Door

The Virtual Exhibition

November 1, 2020 – January 10th, 2021

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Explore the Art

My Mia Membership

Native American Heritage Month

Plan Your Visit

Upcoming Virtual Events

Virtual Talk: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Virtual Talk: Sam Olbekson on Cultural Expression in Architecture as a Means to Community Building

Virtual Public Tour: Current Conversations

Blog

Southwest artist Juan Lucero joins Mia through Native American fellowship

Mia’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide

Painting a picture with words

5 quotes from Jose Antonio Vargas at Mia that reveal the power of storytelling